*from Inforrm by Steven Heffer On 9 April this year News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers announced in the media that it had appointed a former High Court Judge to…

by Brian Cathcart Let us try for a moment to see the actions of the Metropolitan Police in relation to apparent leaks of information to the Guardian from the point of view…

*From Inforrm Operation Motorman was the 2003 investigation into the illegal trade in personal information by the British Press. Whereas the phone hacking saga has – so far at least – only…

Roy Greenslade makes a number of valid and helpful points in his proposal to come up with a ‘PCC Plus’. In particular he notes the experience and conscientiousness of the current PCC…

by Brian Cathcart One of the minor oddities in all the accumulated evidence about phone hacking is a remark made at the Old Bailey on 26 January 2007, when Glenn Mulcaire was…

*From Inforrm The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture Media and Sport yesterday heard evidence from four former “News of the World” executives, Jon Chapman, Daniel Cloke, Colin Myler and Tom…

by Brian Cathcart What very different figures Tom Crone and Colin Myler present in September 2011, compared with the chippy, brisk, pushy individuals who confronted the Commons media select committee in July…

Former senior News International employees are due to give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport committee which will be again looking into phone hacking tomorrow. Jonathan Chapman, former Director of Legal…

*From INFORRM On Sunday 28 August 2011 the “Sunday Times” reported that Operation Weeting police officers have warned Robert Thompson, one of the killers of James Bulger, this his telephone may have…

by Brian Cathcart It will probably surprise many people — I wish I could say it surprised me — to know that the Press Complaints Commission still thinks it has a future.…